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...Thomas McIlwraith Ox Cart to Automobile: Social Change in Western New York . By Thomas Rasmussen . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 2009 . 195 pp., $35.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7618-4588-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History...

...Mark B. Tauger Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change: Agriculture's Imprint on World History . By Thomas R. Sinclair and Carol Janas Sinclair . Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CABI, distributed in the United States by Stylus Publishing , 2010 . 208 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-84593...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract This essay examines persistence and change in very small communities, something that has particularly concerned researchers since the 1930s. The USDA examined these issues in its “Culture of A Contemporary Rural Community” series in the early 1940s and re-evaluated...

...George Sabo, III Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900 to 1600 . By William C. Foster . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2012 . 240 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-292-73761-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 Agricultural History Winter...

...Joan M. Jensen Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors . Frank Smoot . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews government's agricultural and industrial policies from 1940 onward. In es sence,Wright concluded that theMexican...

...David B. Hollander Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance . Jairus Banaji . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 616 / Agricultural History selves side-by-side with local farmers in the Ecuadorian highlands or Bangladeshi lowlands. One...

...Sara E. Morris The Farm Press, Reform, and Rural Change, 1895–1920 . John J. Fry . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews scales. As McConnell and Keys ask in their excellent chapter-"Meta Analysis ofAgricultural ChangeHow can one rectify important drivers...

.... An incredibly violent and expensive utopian imperialist project that ends in failure is hardly a relic of the sixteenth century. John M. Collins Eastern Washington University Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. By Marla R. Miller. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins...

...Camden Burd Book Reviews Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change. Edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 278 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-469-65593-2. The publication of Alfred Crosby s Ecological...

...Nicholas Dunning Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change in the Wetlands of Belize . Julie L. Kunen . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 114 / Agricultural History Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change...

... rapidly aware of new possibilities; and there was a continuing shortage of labor in farming. The latter reflected New Zealand’s generally restrictive immigration policies; higher wages and greater freedom in urban employment; changing demography and attitudes to child labor; attitudes to married women...

...Rebecca Sharpless Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century . Sandra K. Schackel . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 373 in agriculture and recreational activities. His photos were also exhibited in many museum collections...

...Gregory Taylor Rural Communities: Legacy and Change, Second Edition . Cornelia Butler Flora , Jan L. Flora and Susan Fey . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 499 must be useful, or it would no longer be with us" (158). In fact, he repeatedly...

...-labor ratios, quality of soils, and structure of market engagement. Exploring the different paths of agrarian change in these two districts demonstrates that they were dependent on the structure of market engagement and its effects on the supply and flexibility of labor. African agricultural history...

...Michelle Wibbelsman 2008 Book Reviews LatinAmerica and theCaribbean RememberingtheHacienda: Religion,Authoritya,nd Social Change in Highland Ecuador. By Barry J.Lyons. Austin: Universityof Texas Press,2006. 368 pp., $24.95,paperback, ISBN 978-0-292-71439-7. Anthropologist Barry Lyons draws...

...Alan Mikhail Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology . Carlos E. Cordova . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Middle East Millennial Landscape Change inJordanG: eoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology. By Carlos E. Cordova...

...Gail DiDonato Roots of Change: Nebraska’s New Agriculture . Mary Ridder . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 BookReviews shelf of all serious Kansas andMissouri historians. The Border between Them joinsmy short listofmust-read books for the intellectually curious...

...JOSEPH M. HODGE Abstract This article draws attention to the unfolding debate concerning forest cover loss, climatic change, and declining cocoa production in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana) during the early twentieth century. It argues that, although desiccationist theory was prevalent, its...

... and shifting ideas about milk purity. Antibiotics and Agricultural Change: Purifying Milk and Protecting Health inthe Postwar Era KENDRA SMITH-HOWARD New ways of understandingmilk purity accompanied the introductionof veterinary antibiotics to the dairy farm. Antibiotics?once viewed as sub stances that could...

...David Bello Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736–1949 . By Jiayan Zhang . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2014 . 292 pp., $35.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-2596-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...